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<span class=large>THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI</span>
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CHAPTER 12
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Isaiah sees the latter-day temple, gathering of Israel, and millennial judgment and peace—The proud and wicked shall be brought low at the Second Coming—Compare <a href="isa/2">Isaiah 2</a>.  Between 559 and 545 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 1 (1-22)."><span class='smallcaps'>The</span></a> word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
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And it shall come to pass in the last days, <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="Comparison with the King James Bible in English shows that there are differences in more than half of the 433 verses of Isaiah quoted in the Book of Mormon, while about 200 verses have the same wording as KJV.">when</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Zion.">mountain</a> of the Lord’s <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/12/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="3 Ne. 24: 1.">house</a> shall be established in the top of the <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/12/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 26; D&C 49: 25; D&C 109: 61; D&C 133: 31 (29-31).">mountains</a>, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
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And many <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 8: 22.">people</a> shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Joel 2: 1; 2 Ne. 30: 15 (12-18); D&C 133: 13.">mountain</a> of the Lord, to the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/12/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 122: 1.">house</a> of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/12/3d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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And he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 21: 3 (2-5, 9).">judge</a> among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks—nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 14; Mosiah 14: 6; Alma 5: 37.">gone</a> astray, every one to his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 53: 6.">wicked</a> ways.
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Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sorcery.">soothsayers</a> like the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 14.">Philistines</a>, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
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Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">treasures</a>; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
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Their land is also full of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/8a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jer. 2: 28; TG Idolatry.">idols</a>; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
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And the mean man <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 8; Isa. 2: 9.">boweth</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/9b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE unto God; he worships idols instead.">not</a> down, and the great man humbleth himself not, therefore, forgive him not.
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O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 9: 3; Rev. 6: 15 (15-16); Alma 12: 14.">hide</a> thee in the dust, for the fear of the Lord and the glory of his majesty shall smite thee.
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And it shall come to pass that the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 15: 15 (15-16).">lofty</a> looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Day of the Lord.">day</a> of the Lord of Hosts soon cometh upon all nations, yea, upon every one; yea, upon the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 40: 11; Mal. 4: 1; 2 Ne. 23: 11; D&C 64: 24.">proud</a> and lofty, and upon every one who is lifted up, and he shall be brought low.
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Yea, and the day of the Lord shall come upon all the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 24; Ezek. 31: 3; Zech. 11: 1 (1-2).">cedars</a> of Lebanon, for they are high and lifted up; and upon all the oaks of Bashan;
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And upon all the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 25.">high</a> mountains, and upon all the hills, and upon all the nations which are lifted up, and upon every people;
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And upon every <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 21: 15 (15, 18).">high</a> tower, and upon every fenced wall;
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And upon all the ships of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="The Greek (Septuagint) has “ships of the sea.” The Hebrew has “ships of Tarshish.” The Book of Mormon has both, showing that the brass plates had lost neither phrase.">sea</a>, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
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And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Haughtiness.">haughtiness</a> of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/12/17b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the day of the Lord’s coming in glory; see v. 17-21.">that</a> day.
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And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them and the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/12/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Glory of.">glory</a> of his majesty shall smite them, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
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In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
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To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them and the majesty of his glory shall smite them, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
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Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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